Using ntfs-3g you can safely read and write to NTFS drives.
On Nov 3, 1:27 pm, Chris Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 49ermike wrote:
> > Recently one of the hard drives in my PC crashed. The hard drive
> > contained programs and my Windows OS. My second drive contained my
> > media files (pictures, movies, music). I purchased a new hard drive,
> > and was planning to install Debian (I can't find my original Windows
> > XP CD). Will I be able to access the files on my second hard drive in
> > Linux?
>
> Assuming the drive was formatted NTFS, you will be able to read, but
> unable to write to the drive. This is fine, since then you can copy the
> contents over to a temporary location on the new drive, reformat the
> drive to something you can write to, then move the backup files to the
> original drive (under the new formatting, of course).
>
> If the drive was formatted FAT32, then you will be able to write as well
> as read.
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